Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

Re: [SLE] automaticaly send an IP change

From:
Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>

Date:
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:30:45 -0500

Message-id:
<20050615003045.GY6309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

* Bryan Tyson <bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [06-14-05 19:22]:
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> How should this be done if the computer is behind a router? In other
> words, it would be the router's IP that is actually changing, right? So
> can the computer behind the router detect that the router's IP changed?

No, the router's IP should not change, but you will have to go
*outside* the router to get your changed IP, ie:
curl www.whatismyip.com |grep Title|awk -F ':: ' '{print $1}'